25 APRIL 1891, Page 24

A Report of the Statistics of New Zealand, 1889 (Deedsbury,

Wellington, New Zealand), may be commended to all interested

in the Colony, and, indeed, to the public in general. The statistics of death and disease are curious. The mortality from phthisis was at a rate of 8.13 per 10,000, as against 15191 in England (Tas.

mania has exactly the same rate as New Zealand, and Victoria only a fraction loss than England). In the matter of typhoid- fever, England and New Zealand come very close together, 169,

as against 192; while Tasmania has 7.59. In cancer, England has 610, as against 4.34; but this latter figure shows a formidable increase over the 2.80 of 1880.